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Rend the Heavens: Isaiah's Cry 0:00 Want you to grab your bibles, please, and turn to the book of Isaiah chapter 64. The 60 fourth chapter of the book of Isaiah. My thought this morning is on a little0:11 phrase. My thought this morning is simply this, open the heavens. There is a phrase here in the book of Isaiah chapter number 64. I'm0:23 gonna read from verse 1 down to verse 4. We'll look at these verses this morning. Isaiah 64 verse number 1.0:35 The Bible says, oh, that thou would rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.0:47 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire calls it the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy0:59 presence. When thou didst terrible things which we look not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For since1:11 the beginning of the world, men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, oh God, beside thee1:23 what what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. What a thought. God said, I will I'm willing to1:35 open up the heavens, and I'm willing to pour out something that you cannot even think about. He said, you're praying for something you can imagine.1:47 He said, what I desire to give you when you wait for me, your eye has not seen. Your ear has not heard. Your heart has not perceived.2:00 May 1940. The French side of the English Channel finds 350000 British troops2:13 backed up against the English Channel. Coming before them is the German Luftwaffe and the Blitzkrieg army and military of Adolf Hitler. They2:25 are threatened to be consumed in just a matter of time. The British government realizes that if the blitzkrieg of Hitler has its way as it has had up to this2:36 point, that they can only rescue about 30000 of those 350000 troops. The government realizes that at the2:48 end of this battle, at a little place called Dunkirk, they realize that the war will effectively be lost. On May the 20 fourth, King George3:00 of the British Empire sends out a radio address and he calls for a national day of prayer. He says, we are begging that the sovereign God of the universe3:13 will have mercy on us and will give us a deliverance that we have never even imagined. Because if God doesn't do it, we cannot see it done and we will lose the3:25 war. On May the 20 sixth, from the backwoods of the British Empire all the way to Westminster Abbey, churches were filled with people on their3:37 knees begging that God would send deliverance to the soldiers on the Bay of Dunkirk. Within the next few days, 3 miracles happened that3:48 scientists, meteorologists, and military historians still cannot understand. Number 1, there was a an order given out to the German military force to halt their4:00 procedure. Their their forward advance. To this day, no 1 knows who sent out that order. Number 2. There was a fog that settled over the English4:11 Channel. The fog hovered just above the sea, but it did not cover the ocean. Therefore, the German Luftwaffe was not able to fly for a matter of4:23 about 10 days. The third thing that happened was the English Channel became so still. What normally was choppy, there was a calm that settled over the4:35 English Channel. What normally during that time of year was so stormy, you could not even get a military vessel, let alone a fishing boat. Brothers and sisters, over the course of the next few4:47 days because of these 3 supernatural occurrences, even by those people that don't even believe in God, the English were able to gather all types of fishing vessels4:59 and trolleys and boats. And what was known today as the miracle at Dunkirk, over 338000 British soldiers were rescued from5:11 those shores. Do you know what happened? It all happened because God's people prayed. To this day in our history books, that is still known as the miracle at Dunkirk. Now5:23 brothers and sisters, when we gather in to Isaiah chapter number 64, we are reading a story that is to be linked together with chapter number 63. These 2Judgment, Rebellion, and Urgent Prayer 5:34 serve as a tandem axle that tell us what happens when judgment comes to a people, and yet God's people pray and beg God for deliverance.5:46 Now I'm gonna give to you something that I want you to look whenever Isaiah says, oh God that thou wouldst rend the heavens. Number 1, write this down. It was a present5:58 word to the generation there of Isaiah. It was a present word to Isaiah's culture. Why? Manasseh had risen up, and Manasseh had brought all types of abominations6:10 into the house of God, And God, because of Manasseh, was gonna send a wave of judgment upon his people. And God sends Isaiah alone. And he says Isaiah,6:22 judgment is on the way. And Isaiah gets into chapter number 20 or 64, and he says oh God, I'm begging you. Would you open up and rend the heavens like you6:34 did in days gone by? And would you let the mountains flow down at your presence? And God when your presence come, it boiled the water that flowed out of the rock. Number 2, when6:46 we read Isaiah 63 and 64, the second thing this is, it is a prophetic word that will be fulfilled during the tribulation period. What you will6:58 see in chapter 63 and in chapter 64, you will see things that will be fulfilled at the end of the battle of Armageddon. All of a sudden,7:10 all of these people are gathered in judgment against the nation of Israel, and the bible prophetically declares that the Jewish people are gonna look up to heaven, and they're gonna say, oh God, would you7:22 rim the heavens, and would you come down? And in a moment according to Revelation 19 11 through 21, the eastern sky is gonna be ripped and torn asunder, and he which has written on his7:33 girdle king of kings and lord of lords is gonna come out of the eastern sky and send deliverance to the people of God. But number 3, this is also a present word to this generation.7:45 Write that down. Number 3, it is a present word to this generation. What are we dealing with today? We are dealing with the judgment of God. We are dealing with the oppressive hand of the wrath of God7:57 being poured out upon a backslidden people, upon a nation that's turned their back on God, against the churches that have chosen the way of Cain and the way of Sodom and the way of8:09 Jeroboam instead of the love that King David had for the God of Israel. And you and I have turned our hearts away after the success of the world, and God is sending8:21 that judgment, and the Lord looks out upon people in the church of God on Sunday morning, and he says is anybody gonna step back and look up and say oh God, would you open up the8:33 heavens in my home? Would you open up the heavens in my family? Would you open up the heavens and tear open the skies and pour out a blessing that we cannot contain? And this is what God says to his people. He8:44 said you're praying for things that you can imagine. You're praying for business success that you can imagine. You're praying for souls to be saved like you can imagine. He says when the heavens are open up, I'm gonna8:56 pour something out that your eye has never seen and your ear has never heard and your heart has never perceived. You and I are praying for the imaginable. God says, I9:08 wanna give you the unimaginable. You are praying for what you know. He says, I wanna bless you in ways you can't even dream of yet. He says, I'm asking you to pray that God would9:20 open the heavens. Now whenever I look at this, I'm gonna give you an outline of chapter 63 and chapter number 64 so you can kindly follow along. Write down this, the first aspect of chapter9:32 number 63. We see from verse number 1 down to verse number 6, there is judgment by the man from Basra. The Bible tells us in chapter number 63, and son, I did9:44 everything in my power not to have me a Holy Ghost Nazarene snot slinging spell the other day when I read in chapter and if I if I even get to preach it about it, I'm a gonna get hung up on this thing. So I'm not gonna9:54 preach about it, but let me just talk about it for a second. It tells us that there's a man that comes out of the eastern side of the city of Basra, which is down in Edom. Do you know what he's going to do? He's gone10:05 down to the rose red city of Petra in the nation at the end of the tribulation, and he's got the people of God, and it says this is a mighty warrior. This is a man whose garments have been dipped in blood. This is a10:17 man that's gonna come, and he's gonna bring vengeance, and all of a sudden the man from Basra, he's gonna come and he's gonna ruin the armies of the world. Who is this man from Basra? Well, who is that man that goes10:29 down to the rose red city at the end of the tribulation? Who is that man that rescues that Jewish remnant that's hidden in caves? Who is that man whose garments have been dipped down in blood? Who is that10:41 warrior that is mighty to save? Who is that savior that comes with a sword in his mouth? It's none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. It's none other than the royal redeeming son of the10:52 almighty God. It's Jesus himself. That's in chapter number 63. And I told you I'm gonna get hung up there. Number 2, in chapter 63, from verse 7 down to verse 19, we see the11:04 rebellion of the people of God. The rebellion of the people of God. Now what is that from chapter 63 verse number 7 and verse 19? Well, prophetically, that's11:16 those group of people at the end of the millennial reign of Christ that rebel and go after Satan when he is loose from the thousand years in the bottomless pit. But in Isaiah's day, it11:28 was those people that had seen the mighty victory in Hezekiah's day, and yet they still went after Manasseh. And brothers and sisters, that's the people of God in our day who've seen the mighty power11:40 of God. They've seen the blessing of God, and yet they still rebel against God. How many people in the house of of God today have seen God bless11:52 and still turn aside after other things, but then we come in chapter number 64 verse number 1 through 12. The third aspect of this, write it down, and this is where we park today. It is the prayerDesperation, Faith, and Bold Expectation 12:04 for the intervention of God. He said, judgment's coming, but I'm not gonna send it if you'll pray. And Isaiah gets12:16 under the burden of God and he makes a statement. This is what he says. He says, oh that thou would rend the heavens. If you've got a bible and you make notes in your bible, that12:27 phrase oh that you would rend the heavens, that is a cry from brother Isaiah, and he begs God to do the supernatural. He begs God to pour out something that he cannot12:39 imagine. He says oh God, would you rend the heavens? Oh God, would you tear open the heavens? Oh God, would you peel back the things that block us? Oh God, would12:51 you do what cannot be done in our own power, cannot be done in our own ability. He says I'm praying, and I'm begging God to rend the heavens now. Whenever he prays, oh God, that you13:03 would rend the heavens, there are 3 aspects, and I've got about 42 points this morning, and I'm trying to figure out which ones I'm actually gonna preach on today. You say what did he say when he's praying? Oh God, would13:14 you rim the heavens? First of all, he is praying that there is desperation in his situation. You don't pray for God to open up the windows of heaven when you've got everything you13:25 need. You don't beg God to open up the heavens when you've got the blessings that you need. No. Isaiah's looking and he's saying, God, I stand in need of something. God, I stand in13:37 need of you. There is something that you have that only you can give, and I need it, God. Ladies and gentlemen, we have settled in the natural. We have settled for the status quo.13:49 We have settled for the ho life. We have settled for that which we can imagine. We have settled for that which we can accomplish, and God says will nobody look around and realize God's14:00 nowhere to be found. God's nowhere to be seen. A nation is going headlong on its way to hell, and he's looking at people that are cascading their way down to the abominable pit of eternal damnation,14:12 and he's looking at people like me and you, and he's saying is nobody desperate, Is nobody looking at a closed up heaven and saying why is it like that? Where are the people that get under the holy burden14:24 of heaven and say oh God, I will not stand by as the heavens are closed up on my family. I will not stand by as the heavens are closed up on my home. I will not stand by as the14:36 heavens are closed up and so and so's going to hell. God, I'm coming to you right now, and I'm desperate. I mean, I'm absolutely dying on the inside,14:49 blessings of God. I need you to do what only you can do. Pour out what only you can pour out. Where are the people that are desperate for God to do what God can do? You know desperation is not15:01 just for the preacher. Desperation is not just for the religious. Desperation is not just for those that have to teach and have to preach and have to sing. You and I will realize who God is when we realize where God is.15:13 God's not just God in the church house, he's God on Monday when you wake up in your house. God wants you to worship him. You and I separate that we pray and then we go work. God says, I want you to pray while you're at15:24 work. I want you to worship while you're at work. You and I think that worship is lifting our hands up to God. That's not just worship. That's the actions of worship. Worship comes from the heart. It's when you realize15:35 what God's worth. You can worship God typing at your computer. You can worship God mowing on a tractor. You can you can worship God walking down the way. Teachers, you can worship15:47 God as you are instilling truth into the people. But whenever we get to the place where we realize it just is what it is, gonna be what it's gonna be, We've lost what and who God15:58 is. He says, if you'll pray, I'll do for you what you can't even fathom. Number 2, write this down. Whenever you pray for God to open the heavens. Second of all, you16:10 are expressing faith in the possibility of the miraculous. Whenever whenever old t g gets up here and I say to you, pray16:22 that God does the miraculous. You know what I'm telling you? There are miracles. God can do the abundant thing. Brothers and sisters, we have let the logic of secularism,16:34 we have let the the fear of modernism. We have let the panic of religiousism. I've made up that word, but I'm gonna keep on making them up, because I know what they mean. We have let the foolishness of all of16:46 the isms and the schisms get in our mind. We have let preachers who've got more degrees than thermometers, but not enough faith to blow the fuzz off of a peach get in our hearts. And whenever the Bible16:57 says that there is a God that can heal the that can heal the blind, and can heal the lame, and can save souls, and can turn things around, and can open up the heavens, and send bread out of the heavens, and pour water17:07 out of the rock, and split the Red Sea, and dry up the Jordan River, and knock down Goliath, and kill his brothers, and raise up David, and kill people with a stone and could keep 4 of the 3 men safe in the fire and send17:19 a fourth man in there just to fellowship with them, can seal up the mouth of the lion. When I look at you and say that is possible, there's something that gets in our head that says come on now. And until17:30 we get to the place where we crucify that thought, we'll never see God open the heavens up. Whenever I look at you and say, God can, I'm looking at you saying, God can. When I'm looking at you saying,17:42 God can do what you cannot do, he can give what you cannot contain, he can bless you in ways you cannot imagine. Brothers and sisters, you and I have got something down on the inside, and we say, but Lord, that that's17:53 talking about money. No. No. You and I can think about money. He says, I wanna give you what you cannot think about. It's not about money. It's not about gold. It's not about silver. It's about the power of God. It's18:04 about the influence of heaven. It's about God opening up and giving what we cannot even fathom. When you pray, what do you pray for? Do you pray18:16 for what you think is best or do you say, God, rip open the heavens like a can opener and show me what's on the inside. I just got a thought about something.18:28 How many of you read next went to the the dime store or the grocery store and they had that table at the front and it had bent cans? You know what18:40 I'm talking about? K. You don't know what pour is until you shop at the bent can store. Now we went a step further where we were from. They had cans18:52 at our store, and I don't remember what the name of the store was. And somehow in shipping, the labels had been ripped off.19:04 Y'all don't know nothing about that, do you? Y'all don't know nothing about that, do you? No, sir. And my my, I believe, probably was my grandmother,19:15 because I don't think my mother was that way, but my grandmother would go. And do you know what she would decide, how she would decide what she was fixing for supper? When she opened up that can,19:28 whatever was in it was what was going in the pot. You and I have become far too choosy in what we beg God to do. We've come far too choosy. If it's19:40 not on the menu, God, I don't want it. God says, I don't even wanna show you the menu. I don't even want you to know what I've got cooking in the kitchen. Whenever God's people say, oh Lord, open up the heavens. Unfurl19:51 the heavens. God, peel back the heavens. You are saying, God, I know you still can. But number 3, write this down. Whenever you pray that, and I'm begging God to put that in our hearts.20:03 Whenever you say, God, open up the heavens, you are expressing belief that God will answer. We don't ask God to open up the heavens20:15 if we don't think God will answer. Faith is seeing what is not as if it is. Faith is holding what you don't have as if20:27 you've always possessed it. God says, when you beg me to unfurl the heavens, to do the abundant thing, he says, you are acting as20:39 if it's already in your possession. Whenever you pray, and this has been in my spirit for the last 4 days. The other morning I was20:51 up praying, it was about 4 30. I got up and I was just up praying, and I I was just enjoying myself, minding my own blessed business. And this phrase got in my heart,21:03 open the heavens. Open the heavens. Where are the people that still believe god is able to do21:15 anything? Where are the people that say, as for me, I will not be contented with the status quo?Show more In this video 0:00 Rend the Heavens: Isaiah's Cry5:27 Judgment, Rebellion, and Urgent Prayer12:02 Desperation, Faith, and Bold Expectation21:27 Miracles Unleashed: Awe, Movement, Revelation
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